Davis, Charles H.(Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1989)

These proceedings are unusual in that they consist of papers contributed
to a conference that did not take place. The Association of College
& Research Libraries, which was later than usual in announcing its
own conference, ...

Rosenberg, Victor(Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1989)

"Desktop research" encompasses the various tools that a scholar requires
in the course of his or her work. The "scholar's workstation" of the
future will involve several software packages from a number of developers
to ...

Davis, Charles H.(Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1989)

The creation of machine-readable databases and computer-based services
has always been predicated on the availability of appropriate hardware
and software. During the first generation (roughly 1949 to the late 1950s),
very ...

Shaw, Debora(Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1989)

In consideration of the long-standing title of these meetings as "clinics
on library applications of data processing," we should remind ourselves
that data processing is a means of improving the work of libraries ...

Kochtanek, Thomas E.(Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1989)

A digital computer is a programmable device which on the broadest
level supports the manipulation of symbols aggregated as data. Simply
put, the computer is a tool for creating, maintaining, organizing, storing,
transmitting ...

Kitchel, Sidney W.(Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1989)

If the author had been as creative as Debora Shaw (these proceedings),
the title of this paper could have been "Libraries and Object-Oriented
Database Systems, or When Do You Need an SST?" However clever
the title, the ...

Davis, Joyce N.(Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 1989)

This particular conference has a long history of providing the
opportunity for librarians to join together in their troubles/concerns.
In this spirit, the author would like to share, if not her troubles, at
least some ...